Last Sunday saw another successful GPI fund-raising lunch. At least 100 guests gathered to catch up on each other's news and to tuck into salt-fish and akee, jerk chicken and lots more from Geoffrey's list of delicious Caribbean dishes.

This year, to keep us warm, we were also treated to some of Alexander the Great's fine calypso songs. Upstairs and down in the bookshop, you could hear tapping feet and voices joining in the chorus.

Tuesday 28th June, 1:00pm at 22 Cranleigh St, Camden, NW1 2BD. One of the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century is to be commemorated this summer with a heritage plaque in North London. Cranleigh Street in Camden will be the site of the capital’s latest blue plaque, where George Padmore lived at no. 22 from 1941 to 1957 with his partner and collaborator, Dorothy Pizer.

New Beacon, GPI, renaissance one and Bloodaxe books are delighted to present the London launch of 'Third World Girl', popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller Jean 'Binta' Breeze's latest poetry collection.

One of the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century is to be commemorated this summer with a heritage plaque in North London. Cranleigh Street in Camden will be the site of the capital's latest blue plaque, where George Padmore lived at no.22 from 1941 to 1957 with his partner and collaborator, Dorothy Pizer. The address was a big part of the political landscape of pre- and post-war London, becoming focal point for anti-colonial activists from around the world.